WAR IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY
INVOLVING THE UNITED STATES, ITS COLONIES AND TERRITORIES: 1635 - 1902
Did you ever wonder if your ancestor was involved in military battle? Military papers can provide a great deal of information about your ancestor. Following is a list of wars that your ancestors may have been involved in. Check the dates to see which time period would have been right for your ancestors. Don't discount 12 or 13 year old children! Children of that age often volunteered.
By
Dan Burrows
Orange County, New York Genealogical Society
WAR | DATES | AREA INVOLVLED
French-Spanish | 1565-67 | Florida
English-French | 1613-1629 | Canada
Anglo-French | 1629 | St.Lawrence Riv.
Pequot War | 1636-37 | New England
??? | 1640-45 | New Netherland
Iroquois | 1642-53 | New England / Acadia
Anglo-Dutch | July 1653 | New Netherland
Bacon's Rebellion | 1675-76 | Virginia
King Philip's | 1675-76 | New England
War In North | 1676-78 | Maine
Culpepper's Rebellion | 1677-80 | The Carolinas
Leisler's Rebellion | 1688-91 | New England
Revolution in Maryland | 1689 | Maryland
Glorious Revolution | 1689 | New England
King Willliam's War | 1689-97 | Canada
Queen Anne's War | 1702-13 | New England
Tuscarora | 1711-12 | Virginia
Jenkin's War | 1739-42 | Florida
King George's War | 1740 | Georgia & Virginia
Louisbourg | 1745 | New England
Fort Necessity | 1754 | Ohio
Anglo-French | 1755-58 | Canada
French & Indian War | 1754-63 | New England & Virginia
Siege of Quebec | 1759 | Canada
American Revolution | 1775-83 | USA
Wyoming Valley | 1782-87 | Pennsylvania
Shay's Rebellion | Dec. 1786 - Jan. 1787 | Massachusetts
Whiskey Insurrection | 1794 | Pennsylvania
Northwestern Indian | 1790-95 | Ohio
War with France | 1798-1800 | Naval
War with Tripoli (Naval) | 1801-1805 | North Coast of Africa
Burr's Insurrection | 1806-1807 | South Mississippi Valley
Chesapeake (Naval) | 1807 | Virginia
Northwestern Indian | 1811 | Indiana
Florida Seminole Indian | 1812 | Florida (Georgia Volunteers)
War of 1812 | 1812-15 | General
Peoria Indian | 1813 | Illinois
Creek Indian | 1813-14 | South
Lafitte's Pirates | 1814 | Local
Barbary Pirates | 1815 | North Coast of Africa
Seminole Indian | 1817-18 | Florida & Georgia
Lafitte's Pirates | 1821 | Galveston
Arickaree Indian | 1823 | Missouri River / Dakota Territory
Fever River Indian | 1827 | Illinois
Winnebago Indian | 1827 | Wisonsin
Sac & Fox Indian | 1831 | Illinois
Black Hawk | 1832 | Illinois & Wisconsin
Toledo | 1835-36 | Ohio & Michagan
Texan | 1835-36 | Texas
Indian Stream | 1835-36 | New Hampshire
Florida (Seminole) | 1835-42 | Florida, Georgia & Alabama
Heatherly Distrubance | 1836 | Missouri
Creek Indian | 1836-37 | Georgia & Alabama
Sabine / Southwestern | 1836-37 | Louisiana
Cherokee Indian | 1836-38 | --
Osage Indian | 1837 | Missouri
Mormon | 1838 | Missouri
Aroostook | 1839 | Maine
Dorr's Rebellion | 1842 | Rhode Island
Mormon | 1844 | Illinois
Mexican | 1846-1848 | Mexico
Cayuse Indian | 1847-48 | Oregon
Texas & New Mexico Indian | 1849-55 | --
California Indian | 1851-52 | --
Utah Indian | 1850-53 | --
Rogue River Indian | 1851, 1853, 1856 | Oregon
Oregon Indian | 1854 | Oregon
Nicaraguan | 1854-58 | Naval
Kansas Troubles | 1854-59 | Kansas
Yakima Indian | 1855 | Local
Klamath & Salmon River Indian | 1855 | Oregon & Idaho
Florida Indian | 1855-58 | Florida
John Brown's Raid | 1859 | Virginia
War of Rebellion (Civil War) | 1860-65 | General
Cheyenne Indian | 1861-64 | Local
Sioux Indian | 1862-63 | Minnesota
Indian Campaign | 1865-68 | Oregon, Idaho & California
Fenian Invasion of Canada | 1866 | From New England
Indian Campaign | 1867-69 | Kansas, Colorado & Indian Territory
Modac Indian | 1872-73 | Oregon
Apaches | 1873 | Arizona
Indian Campaigns | 1874-75 | Kansas, Colorado, Texas, NM & Indian Territory
Cheyenne & Sioux | 1876-77 | Dakota
Nez Perce | 1877 | Idaho
Bannock | 1878 | Idaho, Washington Territory & Wyoming Territory
White Riv. (Ute Ind.) | 1879 | Utah & Colorado
Cheyenne | 1878-79 | Dakota & Montana
Spanish-American | 1898-99 | Cuba
Phillippine Insurrection | 1899-1902 | Philippine Islands
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